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Domain organization, folding and stability of bacteriophage T4 fibritin, a segmented coiled-coil protein.
European journal of biochemistry - 1 Feb 2002
Boudko Sergei P, Londer Yuri Y, Letarov Andrei V, Sernova Natalia V, Engel Juergen, Mesyanzhinov Vadim V
Abstract excerpt
Fibritin is a segmented coiled-coil homotrimer of the 486-residue product of phage T4 gene wac. This protein attaches to a phage particle by the N-terminal region and forms fibrous whiskers of 530 A, which perform a chaperone function during virus assembly. The short C-terminal region has a beta-annulus-like structure. We engineered a set of fibritin deletion mutants sequentially truncated from the N-termini, and...
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